I'll join your party (belatedly) if that's OK. I'm through too...and I'm probably more shocked than anyone as had a few problems with my story. But delighted as well. Now I'm thinking 24 hours to make it better. Eek.

Planets are red, violets are blue... I'm an RP finalist and so are many of you!Hey, hang on- surely violets are VIOLET!Anyway, whatever, I'm through also, but have been keeping quiet as I was still writing and polishing- but as everybody seems to be planning to drop their scripts in tomorrow - and that was MY plan - I thought I'd come out of the planet cupboard as well.For statistics fans, there are apparently 72 finalists! (out of 1000ish entries)As for there being "only one". Well, yes, one official winner, but Tony J did say at SWF when announcing the comp that he hoped they might find *more* than one project to develop.Let's hope he wasn't just caught up in the fun of moment...

hello, Mr. Arnopp firstly congratulations on the Red Planet comp, and secondly congratualtions on a great blog. I have only just discovered it!! but I must say it is a very entertaining read. I'm pretty new to this blogging lark but am looking to be in it for the long haul so you may be getting more post from me.

Did you get an acknowledgement email from RP by any chance? I sent mine on Mon and (stupidly) didn't put a delivery receipt on it. And haven't heard a dicky bird since. But I'll not panic if no-one else has had acknowledgements. I'm guessing they're pretty snowed under.

Hi Caroline! Must admit, I didn't expect an acknowledgment e-mail, so I'm not too concerned. One other finalist didn't get one, so it seems the norm. Worst case scenario: if our scripts somehow fail to arrive at RP Towers, I'd imagine we'll get a reminder e-mail.

Small fry, Mr Quest? I won't have that for a second! I've just been a bit rubbish with this thread - because there have been so many wonderful comments, it's been hard to keep up with, what with concentrating on polishing up my RPP entry. I shall indeed inspect your blog - looking forward to it.